introduction
Moses Asch
Roscoe Holcomb
Len Chandler
Harry Everett Smith
Woody Guthrie
Cisco Houston
Pete Seeger
Lead Belly
Elizabeth Cotten
James P. Johnson
Mary Lou Williams
People's Songs
The Weavers
The Kingston Trio
Broadside (magazine)
New Lost City Ramblers
Joseph Spence (musician)
Brownie McGhee
Café Society
Josh White
Teddy Wilson
Eddie Heywood
Sonny Terry
Art Tatum
Baby Dodds
Joe Sullivan
The Two Keys
David Stone Martin
Horace Sprott
Joseph Lamb - Ragtime
Scott Joplin - the entertainer
Arthur Marshall (composer)
James Scott (composer)
Knocky Parker - commercial
Yazoo Records - early blues revival
Riverside Records - early jazz
Origin Jazz Library
County Records - old time country
Eubie Blake - piano
John Lomax
Alan Lomax
Decca Records
Sing Out! - Magazine
From the anthology of folk: 20s/30s
Dock Boggs - banjo
Mississippi John Hurt - guitar
Clarence Ashley
Doc Watson
The Holy Modal Rounders
Blind Willie Johnson
Charlie Poole
Gid Tanner
Skillet Lickers
King Oliver
Allen Ginsberg
Fred Ramsey - Jazz series
Bessie Smith
Nancy Whiskey
Peggy Seeger
Champion Jack Dupree
Richard Dyer-Bennet
Childrens Songs
Ella Jenkins
Charity Bailey
Jean Ritchie
Suni Paz
Burl Ives
Horace Grenell
blues
WC Handy - Memphis Blues 1903
Ma Rainey
Blind Willie McTell
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Blake
Muddy Waters
Howlin' Wolf
Reverend Gary Davis
Blind Boy Fuller
Skip James
Bill Broonzy
Blind Joe Taggart
Billy Boy Arnold
Studs Terkel - radio show
Lonnie Johnson (musician)
Victoria Spivey
Memphis Slim
Willie Dixon
Roosevelt Sykes
Big Joe Williams - nine string guitar
"Short Stuff" Macon
Lightnin' Hopkins
Furry Lewis
Memphis Jug Band
Jim Jackson (musician)
Sleepy John Estes
Frank Stokes (musician)
Virgil Perkins
Snooks Eaglin
King Solomon Hill
Dave Van Ronk
Old time and blue grass revival
Mike Seeger
John Cohen (musician)
Bill Monroe
Kilby Snow
Sam and Kirk McGee
Uncle Dave Macon
Dixie Liners
Ralph Rinzler
The Greenbriar Boys
The Carolina Tar Heels
Carl Perkins
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Pete Steele
Gordon Tanner
Smokey Joe Miller
Uncle John Patterson
Howard Finster
Wade Ward
Tommy Jarrell
The Hollow Rock string bands
Fuzzy Mountain string band
The Red Clay Ramblers
The Freight Hoppers
The Iron Mountain String Band
Earl Scruggs
The Country Gentlemen
The Lilly Brothers
Roger Sprung
Hazel Dickens
Alice Gerrard
Red Allen
the folk revival
The Almanac Singers
Millard Lampell
Agnes Sis Cunningham
Bess Lomax Hawes
Oscar Brand
Ed McCurdy
Mark Spoelstra
Peter La Farge
A.L. Bert Lloyd
Ewan MacColl
Lonnie Donnegan
Shirley Collins
Texas Gladden
Aunt Molly Jackson
Jeff Ampolsk
creation of smithsonian folkways
Gunter Schuller
Smithsonian Global Sound **
Collector Records
Cook Records
Dyer-Bennet Records
Fast Folk
MORE: Minority Owned Recording Enterprises
Monitor Records
Paredon Records *
Songwriters hall of fame website
Library of Congress Jukebox
spoken word
Langston Hughes
Sterling Brown
Claude McKay
Countee Cullen
Margaret Walker
Gwendolyn Brooks
Frederick Douglass
Nikki Giovanni
Sonia Sanchez
Sarah Webster Fabio
Alfred C Fuller
Al Capp
WEB Du Bois
Kenneth Rexroth
Theodore Roethke
Angela Davis
Huey Newton
Ishmael Reed
Guy Carawan
Highlander Education and Research Center
Fannie Lou Hamer
Bernice Johnson Reagon
SNCC’s Freedom Singers
Harambee Singers
Sweet Honey In the Rock *
Mary Travers
Margaret Mead
Ruby Dee
Michael Cohen – gay folk
Willie Sordill
Ginni Clemmens
Peter Orlovsky
Ed Sanders
Walter Lowenfels
David Gahr – photographer
Worlds of Sound:
The Story of Smithsonian Folkways
by Richard Carlin
RANDO FOLKO